A random observation about facebook

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07 Apr 2009, 12:42 am

I rarely use facebook. I used it the other day and decided to enter my religious and political views on my information. I noticed something.

They have a list of religious views to choose from. On the list is Amish. Think about that for a second. How many Amish people do you think use facebook? :chin:

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07 Apr 2009, 1:02 am

Amish? What's that? I'm more familiar with the other religions, Christianity, Islam, Hindu, BUddhism, Jewish. Amish, I'm not sure on

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07 Apr 2009, 1:09 am

Hehe, I might change my fb religion to that then

Keith wrote:

Amish? What's that? I'm more familiar with the other religions, Christianity, Islam, Hindu, BUddhism, Jewish. Amish, I'm not sure on

That one where they live seperate from the rest of the world without much technology, kinda stuck in 19th century-ish I think. Don't know much about them

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07 Apr 2009, 1:20 am

wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

The basic point I was trying to make is that using facebook is against their religion.

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07 Apr 2009, 8:50 am

^^ Haha, funny observation.

I'm sure though, that if it wasn't included in the list, somebody somewhere for some reason would be offended.

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07 Apr 2009, 10:26 am

oh ye of lesser cranial capacity... :roll: (j/k!)

The Amish will let those 16 and over out into the world of the "English" or modern society to explore what it's like outside their village. Some come back and are stronger for their experience. Others don't because they find that the outside world has much more to offer or whatever.

During their time on the outside, they undoubtedly use a computer and are introduced to facebook, myspace, twitter, google, wikipedia, A&E specials on the Amish...

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07 Apr 2009, 10:41 am

digger1 wrote:

oh ye of lesser cranial capacity... :roll:

The Amish will let those 16 and over out into the world of the "English" or modern society to explore what it's like outside their village. Some come back and are stronger for their experience. Others don't because they find that the outside world has much more to offer or whatever.

During their time on the outside, they undoubtedly use a computer and are introduced to facebook, myspace, twitter, google, wikipedia, A&E specials on the Amish...

Good point.

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07 Apr 2009, 5:51 pm

Maybe it is for the Mennonites, a sect of the Amish.

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07 Apr 2009, 6:17 pm

i guess you can do that as a joke lol
thats interesting!! !!
i started facebook too and i noticed that it made me laugh. :lol:

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07 Apr 2009, 6:25 pm

digger1 wrote:

oh ye of lesser cranial capacity... :roll:

(j/k!)

The Amish will let those 16 and over out into the world of the "English" or modern society to explore what it's like outside their village. Some come back and are stronger for their experience. Others don't because they find that the outside world has much more to offer or whatever.

During their time on the outside, they undoubtedly use a computer and are introduced to facebook, myspace, twitter, google, wikipedia, A&E specials on the Amish...

This is known as the Rumspringa. I read a book about it last year but have forgotten the title.

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07 Apr 2009, 6:33 pm

Dee_ wrote:

Maybe it is for the Mennonites, a sect of the Amish.

Menonites aren't a sect of the Amish- these two groups as well as Hutterites are all members of the Anabaptist sect of Christianity. Unless you are talking about Old Colony Mennonites (who live similarly to the Amish) most Mennonites are quite modern in their views, which extends to technology.

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08 Apr 2009, 5:17 pm

LosFrida wrote:

digger1 wrote:

oh ye of lesser cranial capacity... :roll:

This is known as the Rumspringa. I read a book about it last year but have forgotten the title.

However, do they not decide to return to Amish ways they become effectively excommunicated, and therefore no longer Amish. It'd be hard to actually get into facebook unless you planned not to return.

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09 Apr 2009, 3:00 am

goat your thread reminds me of this song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ecEF0nNNoM&feature=related[/youtube]

^note you have to double click on it to get it to work

for those that don't know it's rip off of this song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxF-ImXaUdE[/youtube]

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09 Apr 2009, 6:36 pm

lol I'm a pastafarian on facebook

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09 Apr 2009, 10:41 pm

"Amish Parasdise" is by far my favorite Weird Al song

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10 Apr 2009, 12:10 pm

I was going to go Amish until I discovered they now now allow men to wear buttons no their coats ! !! They've become apostate...

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